Publication Type: | Journal Article |
Year of Publication: | 1998 |
Authors: | L. Mech, D |
Journal: | Wildlife Society Bulletin |
Volume: | 26 |
Date Published: | 1998 |
ISBN Number: | 00917648 |
Keywords: | Canis lupus |
Abstract: | The annual costs of maintaining Minnesota gray wolves (Canis lupus), now numbering about 2,500, under 2 plans are compared: (1) maintaining a population of about 1,400 primarily in the wilderness and semi-wilderness as recommended by the Eastern Timber Wolf Recovery Plan, and (2) allowing wolves to continue colonizing agricultural areas for 5 years after removal from the endangered species list, as recommended by a consensus of wolf stakeholders (Minnesota Wolf Management Roundtable). Under the first plan, each year an estimated 27 farms would suffer livestock losses; wolves would kill about 3 dogs; 36 wolves would be destroyed; and the cost per wolf in the total population would be $86. Under the second plan, conservative estimates are that by the year 2005, there would be an estimated 3,500 wolves; each year 94-171 farms would suffer damage; wolves would kill 8-52 dogs; 109-438 wolves would have to be killed for depredation control; and the annual cost averaged over the total population would be $86 for each of the 1,438 wolves living primarily in the wilderness and an additional $197 for each wolf outside the wilderness. |
URL: | http://www.jstor.org/stable/3783555 |
Estimated Costs of Maintaining a Recovered Wolf Population in Agricultural Regions of Minnesota
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